This is a half-day didactic and experiential training group opportunity for therapists to grow as practitioners and leaders by learning to work with themes of desire and inhibition in therapy. In this group, we’ll look at resistance to connection, internal and external barriers to living fully in relationship to oneself/others. Members will gain here-and-now experience working with resistances to intimacy, and gain more experience transforming fear into excitement and owning their power and competence.

Starting a relationship requires staying present with yourself and the person you are building a connection with. Yet dating triggers so many feelings that it can be hard to stay grounded and open. Mindful dating is playful, exploratory and curious. It invites you to take a fresh approach that cultivates inner balance and self-confidence. Through learning to work with your fears and defenses, you can stay in touch with the most alive and dynamic parts of yourself as you meet and engage with others.

The mindful dating workshop is a series of group-oriented experiences that offer support, insight, and actionable skills. Through sharing stories, writing, and reflecting with others, you will expand your heart in a way that makes dating fun, instructive and enlivening.

Mindful dating originated from our professional training and our own 20+ years of combined experience dating in New York City. Finding our current committed relationships was not about quick fixes, dating rules, or tricks and was instead a process of softening, accepting, and welcoming the full range of feelings that come with intimacy and courageous love. Each of us experienced the humbling realization that our Ivy League educations and professional successes didn’t prepare us for the inner work and emotional skills needed to find the relationships we wanted. We’re excited to offer a dating approach that honors authentic and compassionate connection with self and others.

Participants of all genders and sexual orientations are welcome, whether you are currently trying to maintain a relationship, just ending a relationship, or striving to start one.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi

Who are you in a relationship? What would it look like to live an open-hearted life? Are you ready to resolve what holds you back from getting what you want in relationships? By discovering how and why we get in our own way, we are more equipped to both stops the cycle of defeating relationship patterns and repair the parts of ourselves that block us from finding and keeping the love we want.

Whether you are currently in a relationship, just ended a relationship or striving to start one, we invite you to take a step toward inner and outer transformation. The Island of Maui and its natural beauty is the ideal location for healing and self-discovery. Our high-end, luxury beachfront villa and locally-sourced meals prepared by a private chef provide a safe and relaxing environment to reflect and expand your internal and inter-personal life. Through meditation, yoga, massage, internal inquiry, nature, journaling and sharing with others, you will open channels of vulnerability and stimulate powerful connections.

PRESENTER: YOON IM KANE, LCSW, CGP

Race, Sex & Power is a two day, experiential training group opportunity. It is designed for therapists to grow as practitioners and leaders by learning to work powerfully and intentionally with themes of race, sex and power in their individual, couples and group therapy work. Methods will include didactic presentations and experiential group work.

The learning objectives for this experiential and didactic training include:

Learn to facilitate a culture of open and progressive communication between group members

Identify and learn techniques to work with negative feelings and displaced aggression

Increase comfort and exploration of themes of race, sex and power in your work with clients

Develop skills to create healthy discourse, vitality and aliveness in your work with clients

In this training group, we’ll look at issues of race, sex, power and shame. Members will gain here-and-now experience working with these feelings, their resistances to these feelings, and gain more experience and comfort with their own feelings of desire, attraction, shame and power.

LEADERS: YOON IM KANE, LCSW

This will be a 2.5 hour experiential group to introduce therapists to the work of Women, Sex + Power.

- Are you uncomfortable exploring desire, sex, power, and control in your work with clients?

- Are you more comfortable in the role of the nurturing Madonna than the exiting Whore?

- Do you desire more vitality and aliveness in your work with clients?

In this experiential group, we'll look at issues of desire, sex, attraction, power, and control. Members will gain here-and-now experience working with these feelings, their resistances to these feelings, and gain more experience and comfort with their own feelings of desire, attraction, power, and control. The greater access we as therapists have to these feelings, the better we are to help our clients' navigate theirs.

LEADERS: YOON IM KANE, LCSW + LAURA B. KASPER, PHD

This will be a 3 hour experiential group to introduce therapists to the work of Women, Sex + Power. We will be presenting from 9am - 12pm on Sunday November 13th.

- Are you uncomfortable exploring desire, sex, power, and control in your work with clients?

- Are you more comfortable in the role of the nurturing Madonna than the exiting Whore?

- Do you desire more vitality and aliveness in your work with clients?

In this experiential group, we'll look at issues of desire, sex, attraction, power, and control. Members will gain here-and-now experience working with these feelings, their resistances to these feelings, and gain more experience and comfort with their own feelings of desire, attraction, power, and control. The greater access we as therapists have to these feelings, the better we are to help our clients' navigate theirs.